Lies We Tell Ourselves About Email Addresses

Bear with me, because some of these "lies" are going to feel obvious, or like unimportant trivia. In all honesty, that's not that far from the truth. However, I hope you'll let me try to build a detailed and fun illustration showing how something as mundane as email can break our expectations in surprising ways.

We'll cover a lot of edge cases, stumble over some small blocks, and even discover a few technically-correct things that are valid, but not commonly supported even in big systems like Gmail (probably for good reason, to be fair).